Leonard Schein built his career in the film industry in Vancouver but the seeds were sown when he was a student at the Regina campus of the University of Saskatchewan. When Schein moved to Regina, he missed the independent and foreign films he had enjoyed as an undergraduate at Stanford University in California. In Regina, the theatres only showed Hollywood studio movies. His solution was to start a film club, get use of an auditorium on campus and begin to show the kind of films he missed. It was his first adventure in showing films, rather than simply being a movie patron.